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	Ah, yes, here we are.
	We are back.
	El Rushbow, the all-knowing, all-caring, all sensing, old feeling all concerned.
	All everything.
	Maha Rushy.
	America's Anchorman.
	Once again, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	It's Friday.
	It's time to keep on.
	Live from a Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
	It's open line Friday.
	Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yahoo.
	Once again, uh keep uh remember here, folks, uh, you're listening to America's leading media figure.
	Take one of the biggest career risks known to exist in media today, and that is turning over a portion of the contents of the program to you, veritable rank amateurs.
	And that's not an insult, it's just the way it is.
	I love all of you people more than you can possibly know.
	I am the highly trained broadcast specialist.
	Monday through Thursday, we talk about the things that interest me.
	I don't care about anything else.
	Pretty I'm I've pretty broad-based, wide-ranging interests out there, but on Friday, sweep all that aside.
	Whatever you want to talk about, even if it doesn't interest me, as long as you can convince a call screener, it's going to be interesting to somebody.
	Uh we're not going to break the rules.
	We're not going to talk about how high the phone bill has gotten or how high home heating oil costs are, especially now that we got Hugo Chavez who's taking care of the problem.
	So give it a shot.
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	And if you want to go the email route, that is Rush at EIBNet uh.com.
	Um I have to tell you people this uh for those of you who watch 24.
	Two things.
	Cigarfish and Auto Magazine is doing a cover story on Kiefer uh Sutherland and the whole gang.
	Uh and that issue, the January-February issue is going into mail today.
	I don't know when it's going to be on the newsstands, but it may be there now.
	Uh, but it's uh they did the it's I haven't seen it, but I'm sure it's a great story.
	I also during the break here at the top of the hours.
	You people who watch in the Ditto Cam know I frequently turn to the computer to see what's going on in various places, and lo and behold, I got an email from Chloe.
	See, if she don't watch 24 snerdily, you don't know what I'm talking about.
	But I got an email from Chloe.
	Those of you who watch the show, that's pretty cool.
	So I open and I read it.
	I hear you're obsessed with me.
	I said, Well, that's a great start.
	And she said, No, I hear you're obsessed with my character, and it's a pretty pretty pretty good character and so forth.
	So it was uh it was a thrill.
	All right, these calls are so good, and the calls are gonna talk about things I had in the monologue anyway.
	I don't want to start there.
	Uh let's save the Steelers Colts till the next segment.
	Jim, hang on there, and Springfield will get to you.
	Uh let's start at Elgin Air Force Base in Florida with Eric.
	I'm glad you called, sir.
	Welcome.
	Nice to have you with us.
	Get us rush.
	Thank you, sir.
	I just wanted to thank you and whoever sponsored me for my 24-7 membership at RushlonBell.com.
	I am an active duty service member.
	So thank you.
	That's great.
	I'm glad that you signed up, and I'm glad that you've been enrolled.
	This is great news, and I'm sure that uh has as have you made contact with uh your donor?
	No, I have not.
	I did download my first podcast yesterday.
	That was my first time, and I went to Okay.
	All right.
	Well, you if you want to, the donor, you have the donors information, and if you guys want to start going back and forth.
	The donor would love to hear from you, but it's not necessary.
	Can I ask you two questions that aren't really related?
	Yeah.
	Of course.
	Uh first is your reaction to the uh EJ Dion column on re on excuse me on the uh Alito confirmation hearing.
	Yeah, I have it.
	It's in my stack.
	What's the second question?
	Um in light of Dick Morris's com column uh with liberal ideas coming back into into vogue.
	Could you do your environmentalist wacko football picks for this weekend?
	Uh I've been working on the environmentalist wacko picks for all of the we got four playoff games, a divisional round, and uh I've been working on them.
	So, yes, uh at least a couple of them will do environmentalist wacko picks before the program ends today.
	Uh and with a couple games we'll do uh a moderately serious uh analysis.
	But but we we commented on Dick Morris's column yesterday, Eric, about uh I you heard that.
	Yes, yes, sir.
	Okay, I d I don't I don't unnecessarily agree with him.
	I admire Dick Morris, Uh particularly his polling work and how he analyzes it.
	But I think I think uh to say that liberalism's coming back is uh uh that's just tied to to things that I really don't associate with it, but I don't want to repeat myself because I said all that On Mr. Dion's column.
	E.J. Dion's column.
	This this i he is fit to be tied.
	E.J. Dion Jr., fit to be tied, could not take Sammy Big Gavel Alito out.
	Here's how he starts his piece.
	A little listless intellectual fog had fallen over the Senate hearing room on Tuesday, the first full day of questioning for Judge Alito before the Judiciary Committee as one Democratic senator strode out to the hallway during an afternoon break.
	He leaned toward me and said, We have to hit him harder.
	Now it's interesting that this senator chose of all the people that were in the hallway, E.J. Dion Jr.
	Well, it's not interesting, it's predictable.
	Because E.J. Dion Jr., well known lib, probably viewed as a teammate of this senator.
	We have to hit him harder.
	The Senator was expressing frustration over a process that doesn't work.
	It turns out that especially when their party controls the process, Supreme Court nominees can avoid answering any question they don't want to answer.
	Senators make the process worse with meandering soliloquies.
	But when the questioning gets pointed, the opposition's immediately accused of scurrilous smears, the result an exchange of tens of thousands of words signifying in so many cases nothing, as long as the nominee has the discipline to say something.
	Uh but he's the whole piece with the and I didn't read the whole thing because you don't have to.
	Uh with him.
	I mean, you you can get to the gym.
	Most of these columns read the last paragraph, you know what they're gonna say with E.J., you don't have to wait to the end.
	I appreciate and thank him for that.
	Interesting paragraph here.
	When Senator Feinstein asked Alito if the issue was well settled in court, he offered the celebrated formulation.
	I think that depends on what one means by the term well settled.
	The standard dodge is that nominees can't answer questions bearing on cases they might later have to decide.
	But Democrats Feinstein, Feinstein, Durbin, and Schumer all noted that Alito was perfectly happy to speak expansively on some questions he would face, notably on reapportionment.
	So uh E.J.'s upset here uh at at Alito parsing.
	Uh defining the term well settled.
	I think uh here's what I think is is irritating to all of these people.
	You can read not just Dion, but you can read the New York Times and the Washington Post.
	Let me give you a couple of examples.
	Washington Post today, Alito likely to become a justice.
	Samuel Alito, an appellate judge who could shift the Supreme Court significantly to the right.
	Really?
	Really, appeared headed for the high court yesterday after completing three days of interrogation without a serious misstep.
	Now note what's present here.
	Alito likely to become a judge.
	Yeah, we screwed up, we bombed out.
	He could shift the court to the right.
	Oh, that's a big mystery.
	This is reporting.
	This is some earth-shadowing discovery.
	And then appeared headed to the high court after completing three days of interrogation without a serious misstep.
	Meaning.
	You know, we know the guy's not qualified.
	He's a conservative.
	He's a racist, his sex at big at homophobe, but they couldn't prove that, and he didn't screw up by admitting it.
	They didn't talk about how good a job he did.
	They didn't talk about what a horrible performance the Democrats put on.
	Embarrassing.
	A setback.
	A pure setback for the Democrats in this committee and and their party at large.
	Here's the next story.
	This is the Washington Post.
	This is by Charles Lane, a right cautious nominee.
	And in this story, too.
	Questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee contained evidence that the court could shift to the right once the Federal Appeals Court judge takes O'Connor's seat.
	They are stuck in this notion that O'Connor was the swing vote.
	That we had four libs, four conservatives, and then the moderate O'Connor.
	And she kept the balance in the set.
	These people are so out of it.
	They they just shift to the right makes it automatically bad.
	They don't know what that actually means in terms of accurate interpretation of the Constitution.
	I I think what what is really what's really uh nailed them here is they are still convinced that they are the smartest people around, smartest people in the room, they are the elites.
	They get to set the rules.
	Power is their birthright.
	They're born to it.
	And here comes this nerd?
	Alito.
	Come on, the liberals and everybody admit he's a nerd.
	This is the kind of guy you threw mud on in grade school and high school.
	This is the guy if he's at the beach, you kick sand on him and he runs away in tears.
	He's a nerd.
	And they couldn't shake him.
	It's because their preconceived notion of what a conservative is, and they're they're their all-consuming arrogant superiority about who they are.
	And they're just shocked.
	They're simply shocked that uh that that uh he didn't misstep or that he didn't screw up or something.
	They have no concept of the possibility.
	The reality in this case, that he ran rings around them intellectually.
	And it's it was it was it was obvious and patent, and it was on display.
	There are there are a couple of other uh observations to make about this too, but I gotta take a break.
	I appreciate the call, Eric, and it's great to have you part of the Adopt a Soldier program.
	We'll be back in mere moments and keep on with broadcast excellence.
	Stay with us.
	You want to hear some funny sound bites?
	Grab uh Soundbite three and four.
	This is Lawrence Tribe.
	Lawrence Tribe is a is one of these uh the left-wing law professors from Harvard.
	He shows up uh at all these confirmation hearings, and his secret desires to be a nominee.
	He wants to be on the Supreme Court.
	So he appeared this morning on one of the panels.
	Oh, do you want to hear something one of the most ridiculous things just to show you folks how it whacked out.
	Yesterday there was a panel of judges from the third district court of appeals.
	That's the court on which Alito currently sits.
	One of the judges was Mary Trump, Marianne Trump Barry, Donald Trump's uh sister, and the a bunch of others uh from from the pan.
	She was appointed by Clinton, by the way.
	Uh and all these judges that work with Alito gave him just the most glowing recommendation.
	Kennedy wasn't there.
	Leahy bowed his head.
	Hardly any of the Democrats are there to hear this.
	They want any part of it.
	It was clear they're not interested in finding out who this guy is.
	All they wanted to do was smear him.
	Yep, I know that.
	Now then they said, they said it bordered on unconstitutional to have these judges come in there who work with Alito and testify to aspects of the way he does his job.
	And he was actually asked, I forget who did this, but somebody asked him, so Judge Alito, you're going to have to uh recruise your recuse yourself.
	Uh conflict of interest uh if a case decided by a panel consisting of these three judges have just sung your praises, comes before you as a justice of the Supreme Court.
	Are you going to be influenced by their praise of you here today, and maybe have to recuse yourself?
	What an asinine question and and what an absurd proposition.
	For crying out loud, as many people as these Democrats bring up on panels to say pro and con about various nominees.
	I don't remember this one ever being asked.
	I don't remember this this uh so-called unconstitutionality uh ever having been asserted on something like it's it's just I I uh the more I see of these people, the more they are flailing away.
	It is utter desperation because, as I said yesterday, folks, I think it's finally really sinking in.
	They don't control things anymore.
	They do not have the power anymore.
	It's they may be, they may think it's their birthright, but they don't have it.
	And they realize they can't stop this stuff.
	Their special interest groups, their wackos, their money.
	They can't stop because they can't compete with our guys intellectually.
	They have it's not a contest.
	They have no prayer.
	It's like I said yesterday, if you've seen the opening scene of 2001 a space odyssey where those apes start discovering rocks and bones and they beat the hell out of each other.
	The apes are the Democrats in that obelisk that pops up out of nowhere in the middle of the ancient murk.
	Well, that's that's Alito, and that that obelisk represents wisdom and those Democrat apes, so we got a great you ought to go to Rush Limbaugh.com and see the the uh graphic that we created to illustrate this.
	It is fabulous because what happened, these people throwing rocks at Alito all week long.
	And those rocks just been bouncing off that obelisk, boomeranging and smacking at Democrats upside the head.
	They got little bombs going on, political bomb, shrapnel, razor blades, they're bleeding.
	It's all because and now that to say that you can't have these uh co-workers come up and testify about his character and his judicial temperament.
	That's what these hearings are all about.
	Or should be.
	They'll get to Tribe in a minute.
	This guy's been waiting since the show started.
	I want to get to him.
	This is Jim in Springfield, Missouri.
	Jim, great to have you on Open Line Friday.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	What a pleasure to be on your show.
	Really enjoy your show.
	It makes me laugh.
	Thank you, sir.
	Appreciate that.
	About football this weekend, I have to apologize for all your listeners who don't like to talk about football, but I love it.
	That's what open line Friday's for, and it doesn't matter.
	I love it too.
	And we explore our passions on this program.
	Great.
	About the Steel Curtain Rush, can they stop Peyton Manning?
	Number one.
	And number two.
	What is going on in St. Louis with the coaching situation?
	What have you heard being the insider?
	And what's the best possible scenario for St. Louis as far as your opinion?
	Well, let's take the Steelers first.
	I'm not I'm not a big uh Rams fan.
	I don't dislike them.
	Uh I'm I I don't know anybody at the Rams.
	Uh so I'm probably less qualified to give you insight.
	I don't have any inside information on the Rams uh at all.
	Ask the Steelers, can he beat the Colts?
	Yeah.
	I mean, it's just like can Texas beat USC.
	Yeah.
	Game hadn't been played yet.
	Both teams start out zero zero.
	The Steelers can beat them.
	They're gonna have to do a couple things to do it, and they're gonna have to play the best game they've played in twenty years to do it.
	There is no question.
	I mean, if you look at the Colts, I mean they're they are the team this year.
	You got Manning, you got you've got three wide receivers, two wide receivers that could be both are number ones, and these are class guys.
	These are not malcontent troublemakers.
	These are class into Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne, and you've got that you got a tight end uh uh uh Mavinametal block, number 44 is the tight end.
	Great tight end, and then you've got Brandon Stokely, a th third wide receiver, and Edger and James ran for 126 yards against Steelers last time.
	The Steelers um had a horrible game.
	They got a they got to mess with the crowd noise uh in Indianapolis inside that dome.
	It's loud.
	They've been practicing a silent count all week with lots of extra noise piped into their practice bubble uh on the south side of Pittsburgh.
	They're gonna have to control the ball.
	They're gonna have to have a running game that gets, you know, four or five, six yards of snatch, uh carry if if they're gonna have they they've they've got to play their game.
	Uh if if it gets into a shootout, I think Rothlisberger is going to be much better at this.
	That was his first game back from injury, but it it it would be a huge, huge upset if the Steelers won.
	But but I there's no question they can.
	Any team can beat any other any given day, any given Sunday in the NFL, and that's still true, uh, whether it's likely or not.
	I mean, I I'm a fan.
	I hope they do.
	I mean, I'm reading all this talk, you know, the well, it's a it's a Colts year.
	Peyton Manning and the but you keep the these guys have never made it past this game.
	Now, this is the first time this game is being played at home, but they've been they lost to the Patriots last two years in the championship game.
	Uh different team this year, but it's, you know, everybody can have a bad day.
	Uh and you don't expect it with these guys, but uh, you know, you look at the Steelers have won five in a row.
	The Colts, you know, took the last two weeks of the season off.
	Dungey's son died, emotional uh thing that's said to have made this team even tighter and more unified around winning this for Dungey, but they want to win it for themselves too.
	So I don't know if there's a single key that you can say if this is happening, the game's going in an unexpected way, but I'll tell you this.
	If there were a single key, if the Steelers are able to run the ball much better than they did last time, if they're able to get five, six yards a carry now and then and use play action pass on third down to hold the linebackers and so forth.
	There are some weak points in the Colts secondary that perhaps could be exploited.
	Uh but like I say, they're gonna have if they played like they played against Cincinnati, they'll lose.
	They got down 17 to nothing or 14 to nothing to Cincinnati.
	They're not gonna they get down 14, 17 to nothing, they're not coming back.
	They they can't give up an 80-yard bomb first play of the game like they did the first game.
	They've they've got to be in this game, they've got to score first.
	Uh and and they've got to do that in the first quarter.
	And if they can do that, then uh it's gonna be it's gonna be a wide open affair.
	Anything's possible, and I think it is gonna be a good game.
	Joey Porter, linebacker number fifty-five of the Pittsburgh Steelers, called the Colts a finesse team this week.
	So They try to trick you.
	They don't have the guts to line up and play football.
	They're into a thinking man's game.
	They're trying to do all these audibles of the line of scrimmage and get us out of our defense and trick us and throw all these passes.
	And that's not smash mouth football.
	That's finesse football.
	We're smash mouth.
	We'll line up.
	You put eight or nine people against a box, and we're still gonna run it down your throat.
	Of course, the Colts said, if you watched the tape of last week we played uh Joey, uh uh you think it wasn't smash mouth the way we played you.
	But so there's some trash talking going on.
	So it's the one o'clock game on Sunday, and uh it's gonna be a good game regardless of the outcome.
	Thanks for the call, Jim.
	We'll be back here in a second.
	You know, folks, on this uh Alito thing in the Supreme Court.
	Let me let me just let me just share this with you.
	It's it's not only that we won.
	May I be honest here?
	I mean, yeah, confident.
	It's how easy it was.
	Let me take you back to the week leading up to it.
	As you people know, I have friends in powerful places as a powerful, influential member of the media.
	And I'm getting all these emails from them.
	Hey Rush, when they say this about Alito, I know they're gonna say it.
	This is how we have to respond.
	These people are gonna be out for blood, they're out to destroy Alino, and if we don't fight them, they're gonna win.
	All this panic.
	You know, it's everybody everybody remembers Bork and they think the Democrats can still do it.
	And face some of you people still do too.
	I know you do.
	You watch the mainstream media, you watch these people on television.
	My God, Rosh, my God, they're convincing everybody we gotta stop them, we gotta stop.
	This was easy.
	This was easy.
	The left has been creating an urban legend out there.
	And one of those many of them, and and an urban legend, one of them is that the minority is actually the majority.
	And the minority has all this power, and the more minority has all these rights.
	And I think they started believing their own Barbara Streisand.
	They started believing their own B.S. They actually they still treat it as the leaders of both the House and the Senate by the mainstream press.
	Republicans are just temporary interlopers.
	But when you look at it, folks, this was easy.
	We put excellence in the personage of Sam Alito on display, and he ran intellectual rings around these people of the Democrats and the Senate.
	It wasn't even a contest.
	And it was so obvious to everybody what they were trying to do.
	Destroy the man personally.
	It was a pure smear attack.
	The fact that the Democrats didn't even want to hear what these associates of his from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals had to say.
	I mean, that's what these hearings are all about.
	Temperament, judicial temperament.
	How's this guy to work with?
	What does he look at how does he look at the law and his job and say they don't want to hear it?
	The Democrats weren't even in the room.
	It's evidence.
	This was nothing more than a smear campaign from the get-go.
	But it was easy.
	And I don't say this, thinking that we can continue to be overconfident, and I'm not trying to make people overconfident.
	I'm just giving you an accurate assessment.
	It was easy.
	Well, it wasn't easy for Alito and his wife.
	I wouldn't want to be in the situation.
	I wouldn't either.
	But folks, Dan Henninger, the uh Wall Street Journal today, uh, has a piece that is his own treatment of uh theory of mine I've been espousing all week.
	They can't bork anybody anymore.
	It can't bork anybody.
	They can't get away with the seriousness of the charge, trumping the nature of the evidence.
	They just can't get away with it.
	Now let's let you listen a little bit of Lawrence Tribe, the perennial uh panel member from the Democrats, Harvard Law wants to be a Supreme Court justice himself.
	Here's a portion, we have two bites, and here's a portion of what he said.
	It is crucial to know that Judge Alito dramatically misstated the current state of the law when pushed on whether he still believed, as he said, not in his role uh as a government lawyer, but in his personal capacity, that he believed the Constitution does not protect the right to abortion.
	When he was asked, do you still believe that?
	He said, Well, I would approach it by starting with Casey.
	Casey in 1992, he said, began and ended with precedent, starry decisis.
	Casey simply followed Roe.
	And he thereby avoided the issue.
	That's not true.
	Casey split the baby in half.
	And Roe kills the baby.
	If Casey split the baby in half, Roe kills the baby.
	This is this is this is one of the leading liberal legal minds.
	And the best analogy you can come up with for the Casey case on abortion is that it split the baby in half, leading people like me into Yah, but Roe kills the baby.
	Uh I I I just it it's and by the way, they did a survey, and I'm sure you've seen this survey of the questions.
	Over 700 questions asked.
	I was frankly surprised that that many questions were asked because I didn't think a Democrat shut up for making speeches long enough to ask that many questions.
	There were 700 question asks asked, and you know what the vast majority of them are asked about, I mean it's it's it's not a tough thing.
	Abortion.
	Abortion.
	I think Tribe Snerdley, I didn't watch Tribe.
	Snurdley says he was a total buffoon this morning.
	Uh he comes from a family of lawyers, is that oh, I do.
	I come from a family.
	Yeah.
	Well because he's a liberal.
	He gets his reputation because he's a liberal.
	He's a Harvard liberal.
	That's how he gets the reputation.
	He's a Harvard liberal.
	He's written the right books.
	He speaks to the rape.
	That's no mystery.
	How does any liberal get a reputation?
	How does any liberal get a reputation as XY or the M. Anyway, let's go to the next bite because this, you know, Arlen Spector's trying to figure out why Tribe is there and on whose side he is.
	You know, Spectre, you know, for all the criticism people have of him, is a little perplexed after he's listened to Lawrence Tribe for a while.
	And he says, Professor Tribe, did you say you were not testifying against Judge Alito?
	You just heard it pretty much sounded like he opposed Judge Alito, right?
	And uh and he's part of a Democrat panel.
	And so Spectre says, You are you you say you are not testifying against Judge Alito.
	I'm not recommending any action.
	I'm recommending that everyone, because I think it's foolish.
	Nobody really cares what I say.
	From your recommendation, are you saying you're not testifying against uh Judge Alito?
	Uh I'm not testifying for or against Judge Alito.
	I'm explaining why I'm very troubled by his views.
	Obviously, it follows from that uh that I would be hard-pressed to recommend his confirmation.
	Well, the gold mine here is nobody really cares what I say.
	Tribe, that's how he started.
	I'm not recommending any action.
	I'm recommending it everyone because I think it's foolish.
	Nobody really cares what I say.
	Sort of like Admiral Stockdale.
	Who am I and why am I here?
	When he showed up at a vice presidential debate as Perot's VEP candidate.
	Yeah, and by that's right, H.R. That's a pretty good observation.
	This is something a moderate would say.
	Who cares what I say?
	Who listens to what I say?
	Nobody really cares.
	That's a great way to define moderate.
	By the way, I uh ladies and gentlemen, I must have missed this, and I I asked Snerdley to keep an eye on this because I thought it wouldn't be ten minutes, and I thought this actually would happen before the show started, but um he hadn't seen anything on it, and I haven't either.
	Uh uh talking about this Vladimir Ziranovsky uh criticism of Condoleza Rice.
	If you if you missed it, he spoke to Pravda.
	And he uh he got mad at her because she she called on Russia to act responsibly in supplying natural gas to Ukraine.
	So he talked to Pravda about it, and he attributed her statement as coarse anti-Russianism and said that it's a single woman who has no children.
	If she has no man by her side at her age, he never will appear.
	Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers.
	She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied.
	If you need me to translate that for you, I'm not gonna do it.
	Go ask your mother.
	He then went on and said, Condoleezza Rice, a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
	Such women are very rough.
	They can be happy only when they are talked and written about everywhere.
	Oh, Candy.
	What a remarkable woman.
	What a charming Afro-American lady.
	How well she can play the piano and speak Russian.
	Well, complex pro women are especially dangerous.
	They're like they're like malicious mothers-in-law, women that evoke hatred and irritation with everyone.
	Everybody tries to part with such women as soon as possible.
	A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political person, though, like Condoleezza Rice.
	Now, I would have figured that within five minutes of this being reported, that the NAGS, the National Association organization, whatever, of women, would be livid, and they would be marshaling their resources, and they would be writing and editing the press releases that they were going to slam dang all over this world today.
	Rearranging guest appearances on all the cable shows, writing editorials for the local papers, soliciting funds from supporters, all in an effort to mount a spirited, passionate defense of Condoleezza Rice and all single career women across the world.
	This is what the National Organization for Women is to do, right?
	They're to defend these malicious attacks, no matter from whom they come against particularly folks to the nags.
	Let me just tell you something.
	There is it is it is it is code language when you rip single career women.
	That's code language.
	That's homophobia.
	This Russian has just he's not only insulted her as a woman, he has alleged that she's a a lesbian to boot.
	She's worse than a mother-in-law.
	And in Russia, there is nothing worse than a mother-in-law.
	And you and you and you would well.
	I actually think that Maureen Dowd could benefit from a trip to the barracks, but I don't I don't want to get into that.
	I'm just saying that they would do everything they could.
	I've been expecting them to lodge some some repudiation of this guy, Ziranovsky.
	Ask everybody who the hell does he think he is?
	I've been expecting the spirited defense of Condoleezza Rice, and we can't find it from the Nags.
	Back to the phones we go.
	Open line Friday.
	Rush Limbaugh talent on loan from God.
	Doug in Superior, Montana.
	Pleasure to have you with us.
	Hi.
	Hey, Maha, Megadiddos from Beautiful Warm, and according to the Democrats, soon to be blue, Montana.
	How are you today?
	Thank you, sir.
	Great to have you on the program.
	Hey, thanks.
	I were read with interest this morning that the um rather democratic legislature in Maryland has apparently overridden Governor Ehrlich's veto of the Walmart extortion bill.
	And was wondering uh your thoughts and whether you think that Walmart will do the right thing and just uh close its stores in Maryland and move elsewhere.
	Yeah, that was my original idea to tell them to do that.
	If you're gonna do that, just leave.
	Just go to some state, whether right on the border of Maryland and open the store there and so forth.
	I think this uh we've talked about this at great length on this program.
	This is nothing else.
	It's nothing other than a government-sanctioned rape.
	This is a government-sanctioned rape of an American business.
	Maryland lawmakers bucked the will of the Republican governor and the nation's largest retailer yesterday, voting to become the first state to effectively require that Walmart spend more on employee health care.
	This, you yeah, we just had hearings in an all-powerful Supreme Court.
	You gonna take away a woman's right to choose?
	You gonna do that?
	Are you gonna do this?
	What the hell is going on in the state of Maryland?
	In a veto reversal that was closely watched nationally, lawmakers in the Democrat-led General Assembly voted largely along party lines for a measure that legislators in more than 30 states are now considering replicating.
	Senator Gloria Lawler, a Democrat from Prince Georgia, said Maryland's not a shrinking violet, not far from or no far from it.
	Maryland's a leader.
	Let us light the torch today.
	Let us lead.
	The Senate voted 30 to 17 for the bill after a filibuster attempt by the Republicans.
	The bill will require private companies with more than 10,000 employees in Maryland to spend at least 8% of their payroll on employee health benefits or make a contribution to the state's insurance program for the poor.
	Walmart employs about 17,000 people in Maryland, the only known company of such size that does not meet that spending requirement.
	Probably the only such company in this size in the state.
	And there's a reason they went after companies with 10,000 or more employees.
	It was It was a way to snare Walmart, but not many others.
	Walmart spokesman Nate Hurst said the votes were driven by partisan politics.
	This vote was never about health care.
	In allowing a bad bill to become a bad law, the General Assembly took a giant step backward and placed the special interests of Washington Union leaders ahead of the well-being of the people they serve, and that's wrong.
	Della delegate Ann Healy, Maryland said, We don't we don't want to kill Walmart.
	We want this uh we we want this giant to behave itself.
	We we want this giant not to be a bully.
	None of your damn business.
	You know, I I just this is it is knew this was gonna happen.
	I knew that they were gonna be able to override the uh governor's vetoes, a valiant effort on the on the on the part of uh Governor Ehrlich, but this is just it is absurd.
	And I you know, the the bottom line is here there's that I think there's really something more than just getting money out of Walmart that is uh designed to provide health care for their poor bedraggled, discriminated against workers.
	And it's this.
	If you know how corporations like I saw a story as a story today that corporate taxes are at an all-time high.
	Corporate taxes and all-time high, spending's an all-time high, but corporate taxes are so high, came in in December that the government showed the treasury showed a surplus for the first December in a whole bunch of years.
	Well, can I tell you a little bit about corporate taxes being high?
	Uh corporations don't pay taxes.
	They may fill out a form and they may send up some money.
	But you pay them, folks.
	We all do.
	When we go to that corporation and buy its product or service, it's all built into the price, and that's what they want to force Walmart to do.
	The real dirty secret here, dirty little secret is that they want to destroy Walmart's price point.
	They want to destroy the whole discount philosophy of Walmart.
	They want them to have to raise prices to come up with this newfound money that the state is demanding.
	And there's a way to do it.
	And that is raise prices.
	And if you raise prices, and if you're Walmart, then you are destroying the whole success basis that you have built.
	And make no mistake, there is an anti-Walmart.
	Look at look at we talk about this in this program a lot.
	Look at liberal America.
	Look at leftist America.
	Who are their enemies?
	ExxonMobil, Big Pharmaceutical, Walmart, Big Auto.
	Look at the things that they hate when they point fingers of blame and try to say, here's what's wrong with this country.
	Where do they point?
	If you ask me if liberals were had any sense of consistency and decency, they would love Walmart.
	Walmart serves people who don't have a lot of disposable income to spend and still enable them to purchase products that they want and need.
	At a price lower they can get anywhere else.
	But they are so tied to the unions and the contributions that these unions make that they will throw the average American overboard.
	They will cast aside the concern for poor Americans or low-income Americans at the expense of keeping their union money coming in.
	So if Walmart is not around in Maryland or any of these other states after this to exist as it always has, what are they gonna have to do?
	They're gonna either have to fire people, and then will Maryland get mad at them for doing that?
	Say you can't fire people.
	Or they're gonna have to raise prices, or they're going to have to lose money.
	Pure and simple, in order to satisfy this, especially if this mushrooms to these 30 other states.
	That is what I think the actual end game here is to destroy Walmart.
	We'll be back.
	It's not to enrich the state of Maryland, although that's that's nice icing on the cake.
	But the real point here is destroy Walmart.
	We'll be back after this.
	Stay with us.
	I know that.
	They're telling me you're up, boss, you're up.
	I was reading.
	I'm getting ready for the next busy broadcast hour.
	This hour shot.
	I got maybe 20 seconds left.
	Uh we I'm gonna try just some environmentalist wacko picks uh for the playoff games, NFL playoff games in the uh in the next hour.
	And let's see, we've got open line Friday, a great board of uh of caller questions coming up, still lots of interesting stuff here in the stacks of stuff.
	So sit tight, we'll be back and continue to excursion, our excursion, sorry, into broadcast excellence right after this brief break of the top, which won't be long.

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